Resent - hit Send too early!
My Windows issue doesn't have anything to do with
/Library/WebObjects/Extensions.
Because of limitations in windows (or at least some versions of
windows), the .cmd file in the application's directory that launches the
app for windows limits the length of the command line.
This effectively limits the length of the classpath.
Some old documentation on the Apple website describes the problem, and
the solution they implemented at the time:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75300
WOBootstrap.jar is their replacement implementation that magically
shortens the length of the classpath that needs to be passed on the
command line, since it is calculated at run-time after launch.
The critical few lines from an old woproject-generated {application}.cmd
file look like this:
:: Launch the application.
echo Launching %~n0.
echo %JAVAEXE% %JVMOPTS% %JAVAARGS% -classpath WOBootstrap.jar
com.webobjects._bootstrap.WOBootstrap %THEARGS%
call %JAVAEXE% %JVMOPTS% %JAVAARGS% -classpath WOBootstrap.jar
com.webobjects._bootstrap.WOBootstrap %THEARGS%
instead of this:
:: Create the temporary launch script that will actually invoke the JVM
using
:: the processed classpath.
echo..cho off > %CMDFL%
::echo..cho on> %CMDFL%
set JAVAEXE=%JVM%
if "%DEBUG%"=="yes" set JAVAEXE=%JDB%
if "%DEBUG%"=="yes" set JVMOPTS=%JVMOPTS% %JDBOPTS%
echo echo %JAVAEXE% %JVMOPTS% %JAVAARGS% %CPATHARG% "%CPATH%" %APPCLS%
%THEARGS% >> %CMDFL%
echo del /F /Q %LCKFL%>>%CMDFL%
echo %JAVAEXE% %JVMOPTS% %JAVAARGS% %CPATHARG% "%CPATH%" %APPCLS%
%THEARGS% >> %CMDFL%
echo set RETVAL=%%ERRORLEVEL%%>> %CMDFL%
echo exit /B %%RETVAL%%>> %CMDFL%
I'll send the complete file to you separately.
-- Bill Michell Development Team Leader, Broadcast Platforms, BBC FM&T (Journalism).________________________________
From: Mike Schrag [mailto:mschra..dimension.com] Sent: 12 September 2008 15:43 To: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org Subject: Re: [New Hotness] classpath broken in 3.4.5473
That doesn't help us poor Windows people. Having got my custom build script working, I now see: The command line is still too long for Windows command scripting to process. Please use the SUBPATHS.TXT file to specify a more appropriate set of paths to substitute. Use the longest paths, particularly if they are common, and eliminate any paths in SUBPATHS.TXT that you aren't actually using in your classpath file. Further, eliminate any paths from the classpath file that that you don't really need, e.g. "WOROOT/Library/Java". If that doesn't suffice, pare down command-line arguments as much as you can. Terminating! Press any key to continue . . . The WOBootstrap.jar way was a brilliant workaround for this problem...
I'm not sure I follow this ... Explain this in terms of exact changes I need to make to ant to do whatever you're recommending. Honestly, I'm totally against /Library/WebObjects/Extensions, anyway.
ms
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